Hi.. after hours of trying to get my nvidia card drivers working I got it, but somewhere during the time I was figuring it out I came across "sysinfo" and noticed in the "CPU" area it says only 1 CPU.Now I am not a hardware professional or anything but if the CPU is dual core, wouldn't it show 2 CPUs? (If so, where's the 2nd? is this hardware failure or what?) And when I run "cat /proc/cpuinfo" I get... (Thanks in advance for any information/help)

Look under linux image, and/or image headers.....you'll need both. I just built a new tower not to long ago and it runs an AMD Phenom II 3.2 Ghz Core 2 Duo and I have opened up 2 extra cores of which LMDE sees all of them (4 cores) and it runs great. Anyway, go into Synaptic, go to the section on the left, scroll down to "kernel and modules", then in the search window @ the top, type; linux image and it will give you all listings and just look for the one wyroak mentioned....specifically you're looking for linux-image-686-pae.....hope this is helpful.....cheers.

AFAIK the *-pae kernel is only available for 32-bit systems. The pae-kernel copes with memoryproblems: it makes more than 3,2 GB RAM available/reachable on 32-bit systems. You seem to have a 64-bit system. I guess wyrdoak missed that point when hy replied.No, I have no answer to your problem; sorry!

Lets see if it's a BIOS problem. Install intel-microcode and reboot to see if that does it, microcode.cti will probably with it.

The microcode data file for Linux contains the latest microcodedefinitions for all Intel processors. Intel releases microcodeupdates to correct processor behavior as documented in therespective processor specification updates. While the regularapproach to getting this microcode update is via a BIOS upgrade,Intel realizes that this is an administrative hassle; the LinuxOperating System has a mechanism to update the microcode afterbooting the OS.

wyrdoak, thanks again for the info. I installed said package(s) and rebooted and get the same output for cpuinfo. I was watching the screen this time and right when linux booted up(immediately after grub) I noticed it said "[00083483.Some.Numbers.Here - CPU1 Not responding]" This is not good I am guessing.The board is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L (rev. 2.0) - http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product ... 29&dl=1#ov

I never really paid attention in windows to the CPU so it could have been only seeing one core as well. =/